#Ransomware ! Are you ready to pay the price ?#

(New way of kidnapping online )Ransomware is a type of malicious software that carries out the cryptoviral extortion attack from cryptovirologythat blocks access to data until a ransom is paid and displays a message requesting payment to unlock it. Ransomware, which is often transmitted by email or web pop-ups, involves locking up people’s data and threatening to destroy it if a ransom is not paid. The global cyberattack has affected almost 220,000 Windows computers in more than 150 countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, Germany and Britain.The cybercriminals have generally targeted places that has enough files incliuding hospitals, academic institutions, blue-chip companies and businesses like movie theater chains. The attacks highlight the challenges that organizations face with consistently applying security safeguards on a large scale.“Not only individuals, but even governments and big companies with so much to lose fail to secure their systems and train their employees about necessary security practices,” said Marty P. Kamden, a marketing executive for the private network service provider NordVPN. “Cautious online behavior would probably have prevented the malware from infecting the network in the first place.”What can businesses and individuals do to protect themselves from ransomware? Here are some tips from security experts. Update your software. Security experts believe the malware that spurred this global attack, called Wann aCry, may have initially infected machines by getting people to download it through email. After that, the malicious code was able to easily travel to a broader network of computers that were linked together through the Windows file-sharing system. (Users of Macs or other non-Windows computers were not affected.)The most disheartening revelation from the cyberattack was that there was a fix available for the Ransom war enemies the attack. Microsoft, which makes Windows, released a patch for the WannaCry vulnerability eight weeks ago, said Chris Wysopal, the chief technology officer of Veracode, an application security company.. Apply all measures to protect your PC from being kidnapped so that you'nt pay for Ransom.